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Linux Turns 17 Today 285

Posted by kdawson on Sunday October 05, 2008 @09:54PM from the hippo-birdies dept.

Meshach writes "Over at the Linux Journal, Doc Searles is noting that today marks 17 years since Linus posted to Usenet, starting Linux (post). As a Linux user at work and at home I say, thanks Linus!" The anniversary is also featured on the top page of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

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Age of Consent (Score:5, Funny)

by BaldGhoti ( 265981 ) writes: on Sunday October 05, 2008 @09:55PM (#25268933) Homepage

One more year and it should be legal.

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One more year (Score:2, Funny)

by nawcom ( 941663 ) writes: on Sunday October 05, 2008 @09:57PM (#25268941) Homepage

..until Microsoft can legally fuck Linux in the asshole... these days though it seems like Linux is going to be the one "giving it". Smile Balmer :)

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Re:Age of Consent (Score:5, Funny)

by weenis ( 656512 ) writes: on Sunday October 05, 2008 @09:57PM (#25268945)

I'd totally fsck that!

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Re:Age of Consent (Score:5, Funny)

by rob1980 ( 941751 ) writes: on Sunday October 05, 2008 @09:57PM (#25268947)

Not that it'll ever get any, of course...

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Made for hackers (Score:5, Funny)

by narcberry ( 1328009 ) writes: on Sunday October 05, 2008 @10:00PM (#25268955) Journal

It is currently meant for hackers
OMG SHUT IT DOWN!!!

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what (Score:5, Funny)

by mikesd81 ( 518581 ) writes: <.mikesd1. .at. .verizon.net.> on Sunday October 05, 2008 @10:06PM (#25268983) Homepage

No google logo for this?! I expected a penguin or something like that.

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Re:also: (Score:5, Funny)

by myowntrueself ( 607117 ) writes: on Sunday October 05, 2008 @10:07PM (#25268987)

HURD turned 18 this year (22 if you count the first failed attempt).
There was a *successful* attempt?????

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My Linux has a fake ID (Score:5, Funny)

by LM741N ( 258038 ) writes: on Sunday October 05, 2008 @10:20PM (#25269065)

Its called Ubuntu and he is supposed to be 60 years old and lives as a zoo keeper, naming all of his projects after various animals there.

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Re:Age of Consent (Score:4, Funny)

by IceCreamGuy ( 904648 ) writes: on Sunday October 05, 2008 @10:23PM (#25269085) Homepage

Are you sure? Maybe that's just your state; I'm 90% certain that at least in Maryland an operating system has to be 18 in order to buy cigarettes.

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Britannica? (Score:3, Funny)

by paradoxSpirit ( 1172919 ) writes: on Sunday October 05, 2008 @10:28PM (#25269125)

"The anniversary is also featured on the top page of the Encyclopedia Britannica"
Britannica is overrated, wake me when it make the first page of wikipedia ;-)

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Re:Age of Consent (Score:5, Funny)

by iminplaya ( 723125 ) writes: on Sunday October 05, 2008 @10:32PM (#25269159) Journal

Go for it [m0sia.ru]

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Re:Age of Consent (Score:5, Funny)

by Reikk ( 534266 ) writes: on Sunday October 05, 2008 @10:32PM (#25269163) Homepage

I thought it already was legal. Linux has been fucking me for years.

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Grats! (Score:2, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Sunday October 05, 2008 @10:41PM (#25269197)

Congrats! 17 years and almost 2% of the market share. This is the year!
http://www.w3counter.com/globalstats.php

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Re:Age of Consent (Score:5, Funny)

by eln ( 21727 ) writes: on Sunday October 05, 2008 @10:44PM (#25269211)

You sick son of a bitch. How could you take advantage of a young, vulnerable operating system like that? An operating system less than 18 years of age is incapable of informed consent, and should not be "used", as you put it.
I'll be calling the Feds on you, and God help you if they find any screenshots of Linux on your computer.

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this just in (Score:5, Funny)

by Nyall ( 646782 ) writes: on Sunday October 05, 2008 @10:47PM (#25269223) Homepage

Time keeps flowing.

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Re:also: (Score:3, Funny)

by mR.bRiGhTsId3 ( 1196765 ) writes: on Sunday October 05, 2008 @10:56PM (#25269277)

Yeah, that time they got malloc to work. Because that's totally all you need for a working OS.

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Re:Age of Consent (Score:3, Funny)

by isBandGeek() ( 1369017 ) writes: on Sunday October 05, 2008 @11:01PM (#25269303)

So that gives whole new meaning to "free." Free as in beer, free as in speech, and free as in to f*ck.

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Re:Age of Consent (Score:5, Funny)

by larry bagina ( 561269 ) writes: on Sunday October 05, 2008 @11:01PM (#25269305) Journal

That won't be a problem until Linux support sound.

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Re:Linus... humble!? (Score:5, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Sunday October 05, 2008 @11:10PM (#25269355)

Or did you conveniently forget that it's GNU/Linux?
Ahem, did *you* conveniently forget that it's [Mozilla|Konqueror]/OpenOffice.org/KDE/QT/[X.org|XFree86]/GNU/Linux?

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I vote next years first ubuntu release (Score:5, Funny)

by sleeponthemic ( 1253494 ) writes: on Sunday October 05, 2008 @11:16PM (#25269395) Homepage

"Barely Legal"

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Re:Age of Consent (Score:5, Funny)

by jadedoto ( 1242580 ) writes: on Sunday October 05, 2008 @11:16PM (#25269401)

Now here in Kentucky...

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17 years... (Score:5, Funny)

by rampant mac ( 561036 ) writes: on Sunday October 05, 2008 @11:17PM (#25269403)

Obligatory:
1991 - This is the year of the Linux desktop!, 1992 - This is the year of the Linux desktop!, 1993 - This is the year of the Linux desktop!, 1994 - This is the year of the Linux desktop!, 1995 - This is the year of the Linux desktop!, 1996 - This is the year of the Linux desktop!, 1997 - This is the year of the Linux desktop!, 1998 - This is the year of the Linux desktop!, 1999 - This is the year of the Linux desktop!, 2000 - This is the year of the Linux desktop!, 2001 - This is the year of the Linux desktop!, 2002 - This is the year of the Linux desktop!, 2003 - This is the year of the Linux desktop!, 2004 - This is the year of the Linux desktop!, 2005 - This is the year of the Linux desktop!, 2006 - This is the year of the Linux desktop!, 2007 - This is the year of the Linux desktop!, 2008 - This is the year of the Linux desktop!
Stupid whitespace filter, yadda yadda

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Re:Age of Consent (Score:5, Funny)

by moosesocks ( 264553 ) writes: on Monday October 06, 2008 @12:00AM (#25269667) Homepage

Please don't let this be the new rickroll.....

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LOL (Score:1, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Monday October 06, 2008 @12:15AM (#25269739)

I can (well, almost) hear you asking yourselves "why?". Hurd will be
out in a year (or two, or next month, who knows), and I've already got
minix.

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Re:Linus... humble!? (Score:4, Funny)

by Anpheus ( 908711 ) writes: on Monday October 06, 2008 @12:23AM (#25269771)

It's GoogleApps/IceWeasel/X.org/GNU/Linux, you insensitive clod.

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Re:One more year (Score:2, Funny)

by rukcus ( 1261492 ) writes: on Monday October 06, 2008 @12:23AM (#25269773)

Nope, sodomy is still illegal in most states' laws.

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Re:17 years... (Score:5, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Monday October 06, 2008 @12:26AM (#25269791)

I'll never forget the day I was at a large meeting with my clients. They never took me seriously and in fact started leaving the room. Turns out it was because my dick was hanging out of my pants. Never again will I use velcro. From that day forward, it was zipper only!

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Re:also: (Score:4, Funny)

by Legion_SB ( 1300215 ) writes: on Monday October 06, 2008 @12:27AM (#25269799) Homepage

Yeah, that time they got malloc to work. Because that's totally all you need for a working OS.
It's all Emacs needs, anyway.

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Re:Age of Consent (Score:5, Funny)

by Plutonite ( 999141 ) writes: on Monday October 06, 2008 @12:30AM (#25269819)

Mod parent up. Linux has been fucking us all, but we didn't care, because it was so.. open about it. We were all in this together. In fact, some have come to call us a "community", but I despise the term.

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Re:Linus... humble!? (Score:3, Funny)

by 2Bits ( 167227 ) writes: on Monday October 06, 2008 @12:49AM (#25269901)

Ah, you forgot to mention that RMS has created an operating system [wikipedia.org] long before Linux existed :)

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Re:Relevance? (Score:4, Funny)

by Bob54321 ( 911744 ) writes: on Monday October 06, 2008 @12:58AM (#25269933)

Why celebrate on an arbitrary five yearly basis. Celebrating on prime numbers is far geekier.

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Re:My Linux has a fake ID (Score:5, Funny)

by Spy der Mann ( 805235 ) writes: <`moc.liamg' `ta' `todhsals.nnamredyps'> on Monday October 06, 2008 @01:04AM (#25269949) Homepage Journal

Why did I suddenly imagine a fake ID with a penguin in the photo and the name "McLovin"?

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Re:Thank RMS too! (Score:4, Funny)

by Spy der Mann ( 805235 ) writes: <`moc.liamg' `ta' `todhsals.nnamredyps'> on Monday October 06, 2008 @01:22AM (#25270023) Homepage Journal

GNU is 24 years old, preceding Linux by 7 years.
This makes me think of GNU as some kind of Frankenstein monster.
And now, Igorrrr... let's put the brrrrain into my arrrtificial GNUuu. Inserrrrt the penguin brrrrain!
- Yesh, Doctor Shtallman.

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Re:Relevance? (Score:3, Funny)

by ja ( 14684 ) writes: on Monday October 06, 2008 @02:10AM (#25270227) Homepage

15, 20, 25, etc. yes. But 17?
Because it is a prime!

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Re:Linus... humble!? (Score:3, Funny)

by pjt33 ( 739471 ) writes: on Monday October 06, 2008 @02:45AM (#25270387)

I bet you think you're really hardcore not using a window manager, but let me know when you're hard enough to use GoogleApps/Lynx/GNU/Linux.

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Re:this just in (Score:3, Funny)

by ignavus ( 213578 ) writes: on Monday October 06, 2008 @02:59AM (#25270427)

Try taking your watch *off* before you get into the shower.

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Re:Age of Consent (Score:5, Funny)

by Fred_A ( 10934 ) writes: <fred@f r e d s h o m e . o rg> on Monday October 06, 2008 @04:09AM (#25270665) Homepage

Even in Kentucky, Linux ought to be relatively safe. I heard it was able to run quite fast...

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Re:Age of Consent (Score:3, Funny)

by Mistshadow2k4 ( 748958 ) writes: on Monday October 06, 2008 @04:37AM (#25270769) Journal

I'm pretty sure 16 is the age of consent here in KY, and has been a long time.
And if I'm wrong, well, it's way too late to matter now.

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And what a handsome teen it is... (Score:5, Funny)

by PinkyDead ( 862370 ) writes: on Monday October 06, 2008 @05:26AM (#25270955) Journal

...coz, lord knows, it was an ugly baby.

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Re:Made for hackers (Score:3, Funny)

by ozphx ( 1061292 ) writes: on Monday October 06, 2008 @05:28AM (#25270967) Homepage

Languages evolve. For this reason I tend not to talk about the large amounts of faggots on my back porch.
I hearby hand you an official "Waa Waa, Cry Some More?" tag.

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Re:Age of Consent (Score:2, Funny)

by Jdogatl ( 836125 ) writes: on Monday October 06, 2008 @06:01AM (#25271091)

Should I get myself checked? I used to have something with this other OS once and I came away with multiple viruses, I never felt so dirty or betrayed as when she popped up, "You are infected, get checked now!!!" with flashing lights and everything.

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Re:Britannica is too outdated (Score:4, Funny)

by Arimus ( 198136 ) writes: on Monday October 06, 2008 @07:25AM (#25271415)

Does anything make RMS happy? So far not seen much signs of any happiness in the man.

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Re:Age of Consent (Score:2, Funny)

by andrikos ( 1114853 ) writes: on Monday October 06, 2008 @08:14AM (#25271691)

You weren't raping them, it was just that windows suck ;)

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Re:Age of Consent (Score:1, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Monday October 06, 2008 @08:17AM (#25271701)

You're from KY? I love what you guys do with jelly!

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Re:Age of Consent (Score:1, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Monday October 06, 2008 @12:29PM (#25274441)

Are you kidding? A lot of people have been waiting for the right time to fork it...

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Age of Consent (Score:5, Funny)

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Made for hackers (Score:5, Funny)

what (Score:5, Funny)

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My Linux has a fake ID (Score:5, Funny)

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Britannica? (Score:3, Funny)

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Grats! (Score:2, Funny)

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this just in (Score:5, Funny)

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I vote next years first ubuntu release (Score:5, Funny)

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17 years... (Score:5, Funny)

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LOL (Score:1, Funny)

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And what a handsome teen it is... (Score:5, Funny)

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